Improved composition for roofing



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

H. K. SOHAUOK, OF BENVILLn, INDIANA.

IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR ROOFING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,462, dated November 6, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, H. K. SGHAUOK, of Benville, in the county of Jennings and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Composition for Plastic Roofing; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and complete description of the ingredients, with the proportions of each and the manner of compounding the same, forming my improved plastic. roofing composition, suflicient to enable any person of competent skill in the art to make and use my invention.

In the employment of most of the roofing compositions the use of tarred paper or some other textile substance is required to receive the composition and form the complete roof. This adds largely to the cost of the covering, both in material and labor. The design of my improved composition is to be used upon the naked sheathing of the roof, or, still more appropriately, upon a foundation made of narrow strips of sufficient thickness, say about one inch, nailed to the rafters, as laths are used for plastering, with a small space between each.

The elements of my improved roofing composition consist of crude coal-tar, common blue clay, and flowers of sulphur, in the following proportions, to wit: twelve (12) parts dry and finely-pulverized blue clay, one (1) part flowers of sulphur, mixed and incorporated with a sufficient quantity of common crude coal-tar to form a plastic mass of convenient consistency to be handled and applied to the roof with an ordinary trowel. The clay and the sulphur are first mixed in the proportions above statedand then moistened with the coal-tar and thoroughly incorporated therewith, enough of the latter being used to give to the Whole the proper consistency, as above stated. All the operations of mixing and using the composition may be performed While the materials are in the cold state, or at a temperature not much above 100. In no case should the tar or the composition be boiled.

The composition may be applied to the roof A roofing composition composed of the substances herein specified, in the proportions and compounded in the manner substantially as described.

H. K. SGHAUOK.

Witnesses:

IRA S. DRAKE, JACOB S. DRAKE.- 

